10 Weird Versions of Linux that ACTUALLY Exist
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Linux has always been challenging with knowing how to get started. Which distro should you use? What about one with Hannah Montana? Well Today Linus investigates some of the weirdest Linux ISO’s we have come across! Warning, we probably dont pick your favorite Distro, so let us know which one we should look at next!
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List of Distros in order of Apperance:
LinuxFX: lmg.gg/5KtrI
Justin Bieber Linux: lmg.gg/zRnoJ
Hannah Montana: lmg.gg/LfmAm
Vinux: lmg.gg/T5S5K
Edubuntu: lmg.gg/FxLhE
RedstarOS: lmg.gg/W56x2
UnAlive Linux: lmg.gg/vxNzj
TinyCore: lmg.gg/8KXyG
SystemRescueCD: lmg.gg/JNJfV
UwUntu: lmg.gg/bRXoZ
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Intro 0:00
LinuxFX 1:00
Justin Bieber and Hannah Montana Linux 3:55
VinuxOS 5:55
Edubuntu 8:04
Remember Kids, Touch Grass! 11:04
More Computer Games! 11:23
North Korea OS 12:17
UnAlive Linux 16:22
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SystemRescueCD 21:24
UwUntu 25:08
Outro 28:56
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How did bro pin this comment 17 hours ago when the video came 5 minutes ago? bro time travellin
Linuxfx got malware.. not recommend.
Yes, freedom is so "overwhelming". Funny how, though, you don't say that PCs are "overwhelming" because there's so many models and options, from different manufacturers, available. Even though it's basically the same thing: anyone can create an "IBM PC compatible" if they want to and many people do. Anyone can package together the Linux kernel with a desktop environment and various apps and many people do. Because you can package an OS different ways for different purposes / priorities. So it's weird that Linus loves building weird and wacky PCs, but then installs "the One Ring(TM) OS" on them all. p.s. You'll mock comments about Linux distros, but where's the similar criticism of comments if someone's posting "AMD Ryzen is better than Intel" or "water cooling beats air cooling" and so forth? SAME THING. Dumb Linux distros? Exactly the same thing as the stupid PC builds you do, making a PC out of cardboard or whatever. SAME THING.
Now get Linus to get on Linux permanently I'm waiting....lol
There should be an ltt Linux version, call it Linux Sebastian
On it
Anthony could do it in two days.
processes drop randomly
This would make a great April fools joke
One time for a tech project I made a (scuffed) concept for "Linus OS". My whole class loved it 😂
They really missed the opportunity to change the intro to Linux Tech Tips.
Yes, his name is Linus Sebastian. Linus Torvalds, of course, was the person who named the Linux kernel, yet this Linus is not the same as that Linus.
@@novaTopFlex They're the same guy. Don't @ me, god damn it.
@@novaTopFlex r/wooosh
True but then they would have to render the whole intro again in After Effects or similar, it's a bit overkill
At aaà QA QA
The confidence with which Linus said you can't divide by a negative gives even more credit to how essential Yvonne was to the founding of LMG lol
You can almost hear her disappointed sigh all the way from her office
Idk how do to that but ik u can
@@frozencatcake it's the same as dividing by a positive. The only special consideration you need to make when multiplying or dividing by negatives is if the two numbers have the same sign the result is positive if different the result is negative.
@@frozencatcake Multiply both the numerator and denominator by a negative number. Now the denominator is positive.
thank you guys
When I first heard of Linus Tech Tips, I assumed it was a channel dedicated to Linux. Since that isn't what this channel is, I still have to support every Linux video you make in the hopes that someday the metrics will be good enough that you will indeed dedicate the entire channel to Linux-related content.
Yoo same
WHEN LINUX CHANNEL
Lol! I was _so_ disappointed when I first discovered it. But --- like a barnacle that I allowed to stick around for too long --- the show has grown on me.
Linus, I need you to read this comment. Vinux is a very old distro that no one who is blind (like myself) or visually impaired uses any more. Most distrobutions are now accessible right out of the box, and support braille displays. You are correct that braille displays are expensive though. I would like to truthfully say, "I use Arch, by the way." I would like to add, "I also have no sight, and set it up on my own." I just want to let you and others know that most distrobutions are now accessible, and that almost no blind person I know uses Vinux. Some desktop environments are inaccessible, so inaccessibility is still a challenge. It would be nice if more developers payed attention to accessibility on all operating systems and applications.
FYI - when you say, quote, ""no-one", you are typing out K, N, O, W, Space, O, N, E. This word is actually spelled N, O, hyphen, O, N, E. This top may help make your writing easier to read for sighted readers.
@@williamcampbell9859 Thank you for letting me know my mistake. I should have double checked my spelling.
@@dontmindbeingblindd you are so right that accessibility is overlooked generally! I'm not even HOH but I ended up dropping out of uni because a subject I needed to pass didn't provide any closed captions or lecture notes! So awesome to have you as part of the community!!
Damn, installing Arch while being blind is quite impressive! Welcome to the club and best wishes in your life!
I'm surprised the Arch installer has accessibility support, it was a fairly barebones set of tools that required following the wiki to use properly when I last installed Arch Linux, though that was before System D was a thing, so has been quite a while haha.
1:06 pls no one use Linux fx it's somehow worse than actual windows. On top of Microsoft accurate spy ware (gotta respect their effort to be like Windows as closely as possible) , that distro also has awful security and even leaked all user passwords once. And it's got some paid features you can pretty easily install for free
They rebranded to Wubuntu and a lot of KZheadrs were talking about it a month ago.
yh, their license verification measure was connecting to a mysql database with passwords stored in a text file on the OS xD
IIRC, the people behind them were literal scammers too, weren't they ?
Yup. There are some great distros out there, but this one is not it. If you want something close to Windows, stick to Linux Mint or Zorin OS.
They need to pin this
Stellarium is genuinely a really cool application. Yeah you can check on the sky as it appears at your location at that moment, but its also extremely zoomable, it can also show you historical and future positions of stars, constellations, moons, planets, comets and such. If you wanna know what the night sky looked like the day you were born, or wanted to see the moon zip across the screen and infront of the sun on the next solar eclipse you can absolutely do that. Growing up not wealthy and living in a very light polluted area, Stellarium was a real dope piece of software to have. My peak was in middleschool when I used a salvaged projector to throw the night sky over a (admittedly small) section of ceiling.
It might be cool, but it probably isn't at all useful to 99% of users :P
Nobara Linux is a distro that essentially takes Fedora and adds a ton of kernel and driver tweaks that would probably be too verbose for the average user to install; they’re geared toward gaming performance and modern hardware stuff like HDR and they actually achieve decent results. It’s developed by the same guy that makes Proton-GE (Glorious Eggroll) and it is kept as up-to-daye as it could ever be. It also has a custom steam install with more performance tweaks, and comes with some other preinstalled apps and drivers and such. I will note that generally, one wouldn’t want to run things like UwUntu on their genuine main computer due to only having 2 maintainers that might quit at any point, but people generally regard Nobara as fine for production due to how close to stock it is an the reputation of the maintainer.
"up-to-daye as it could ever be" That's a bit redundant. You already mentioned that it's based on Fedora! ;-p
Imagine Elijah going through life, thinking everyone calls him horrible things, but he is just slightly misshearing EVERYTHING... 😂
I have a friend like that. It's actually just as bad for everyone else (when he gets annoyed/irritated) as it is for him.
He didn't even mishear him, what Linus said was just weird.
self esteem
Hi, just want to point out that "LinuxFX" is not very liked because of couple of reasons. One of them being the breaking of the GPL license. It's also has been known to have spyware built in (at least in older versions, most likely in newer too).
Yep, MichaelMJD has a good video on it
yep, please avoid using linuxFX
Spyware built in? I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, it adds up to the overall Windows experience... 😂
@@trban8r He made a video on "Wubuntu" but they are essentially the same thing anyways.
Just like Windows
One use-case I've heard for that "UnAlive Linux" is for job interviews. You give the interviewee a task where they likely miss-type a command, the system breaks itself and you get to see how they deal with stress situations.
That's actually genius but also a bit cruel lol
What do you expect them to do? Throw the PC out of the window?
This is pretty cool! You should do a brief overview of Linux distros that are weird on a **technical** level compared to other distros. Stuff like immutable Linuxes, distros based on purely functional package managers, hybrid distros like Bedrock Linux or blendOS, non-GNU distros like Alpine, etc. I don't think most channels could pull off a video like that for general audiences, but I think LTT could. Personal favorites that I'd love to see covered: NixOS, GuixSD, Bedrock Linux, Fedora Silverblue, GoboLinux, Gentoo
+1 for NixOS, which is my daily driver now
@@o.p.2594 mine, too :)
I think LTT needs to check out those braille displays. I've always been curious about them. Make a whole Accessibility Technology video.
That would be cool but they’re expensive asf
I mean linus can use it as a tax write-off 🤣🤣🤣
They aren’t that special. But what do you want to know about them? And I doubt ltt will do that since they cost up to $10000
But nobody there would no Braille, and it takes a long time to learn. And yeah they are very expensive, but I mean these folks could even just borrow it from a company, humanware is based in Canada and theyd probably be happy to partner with folks like these.
@@veenmikki27I mean it makes them the perfect people to show it off right? they can shell out the money and can raise awareness of the tech existing bringing more attention and interest.
LinusOS must have - Steam pre-installed, - gyroscope support to scream Linus! when the device is dropped, - `rm -rf /` when motion blur is turned on in any game, and - contain icon theme/wallpaper with hidden Linus faces.
The problem with -rm -rf when motion blur is turned on is many MANY games have it turned on by default. I still don't understand why developers make motion blur a default option. It is AWFUL.
NATIVE Steam. Flatpak Steam is not acceptable.
@@kingzach74 U should never play those games even without rm -rf / xD
@@Capp0Just because they have an awful graphics feature enabled by default doesn't mean the games themselves are inherently bad.
Honestly would also say they should include some type of hardware diagnostics app just because it would make it feel more techy...maybe some would say it would be quick techy...anyone...?...
"Children's entertainer" cmon, he's really good at it tho!
The Linux challenge is what brought me in as a regular LTT viewer. Loved this episode too... can't wait to see what you come up with. (I suggest basing your distribution on Debian)
There was also Rebecca Black Linux. That one was actually groundbreaking because it was one of the first Linux distros which shipped with Wayland support.
that's hilarious
Jewbuntu was also groundbreaking
Did it only work on Friday?
And the last update to it at the time of writing was 17 hours ago.
Explains a lot about the initial state of Wayland.
10:54 actually Stellarium is much more than that! It allows you to see stars and constellations in "real time" and can also time travel to a specific day and hour
yeah and you can line up shots in astrophotography and much more, makes me kinda sad that they didn't realize
Agreed. Stellarium is great. I have used it many times to manually find things with my telescope.
I used it to track the recent solar eclipse as I watched it.
Yep, for astrophotography, I've used Stellarium to plan shots months in advance by location scouting and knowing exactly what stars and nebula will be visible from where. Super cool software.
And you can connect it to some telescopes and have them move/track objects you select!
Throw back to me as a 13 year old in 2013 seeing "LinusTechTips" on KZhead, thinking that was the same as Linux, and also thinking that was the same as MacOS, therefore I hated it. Needless to say his camera presence grabbed me then, and still does to this day. Thank you for all the years team
I used TinyCore at a company I used to work at! We installed an RDP Client on it, setup a config file it loaded, and upon booting, it automatically connected and sat at the login screen. No licensing like WYSE clients, ran on much older hardware, and all it had to do was connect to the internet and draw.
This was fun to watch. Elijah is a silly, loveable guy, often slightly awkward but always being genuine. I absolutely love the crew LTT has put together.
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1:04 you mean the linux fx that has microsoft-accurate spyware, awful security and paid features that you can easily install for free? They also once leaked all the user passwords.
Wow they got the Microsoft experience perfectly. Hats off to them
I thought they leaked the pro user database, got called out, and changed things in a way that also leaked the database. If I remember correctly, not paying them for anything was the correct option because there was no data they wanted to store.
They talked about that in the video. Maybe you should have watched it
A complete recreation of the latest Microsoft Windows™ experience. 10/10
@@akosv96 ill use my genuine microsoft experience thank you XD
I use systemrescue pretty regularly for various things. Most commonly to break into windows and linux systems, including into bitlocker encrypted volumes (when I have the recovery key obviously). But also for various forensics tasks, I've used ddrescue off failing disks to build images for later analysis with winhex for example. Also I've booted compromised systems off it, started the ssh server, and used that to copy files off the compromised system without having to take out the SSD or launching the OS, etc. Very useful tool, can't say I've ever tried it's gui though.
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i love it!
*LTT needs more Linux content!*
This might be a dumb question but how did you make your text so bold?
@@SpaceGamblerJR using asterisks. There some limitations in combinations with other punctuation marks though. Example: .*This text would be bold if it wasn't for the dot at the beginning*
@SpaceGamblerJR *just put text between asterisks* _ like *this* * or with _this_ _ or with -this- -
Linux is trademarked
@@viniciusmedinarj Not how this works
It'd be nice to see some nice gui applications for hardware specifics/details, gaming utilities are a must-have, practical applications, a browser, etc.
"You cant divide something by a negative number" ... This man is smart everyone
19:21 I really expected to see KolibriOS instead of TinyCore It has lower min specs and comes with more programs to try out Also after seeing uwuntu I was surprised they didn't also get AmongOS Edit: sorry didn't know kolibri isn't a Linux distro
KolibriOS is veey interesting. It is not linux though, it is written in assembly
Yeah, as Daniel said, it's technically not Linux based. My vote though is for AntiX. That distro will run on a toothpick AND it's actually usable and useful. Kind of the Windows XP of Linux, though you could also give that distinction to Q4OS as well. If anyone has any experience with Q4OS though, let me know!
Kalibri will also be a descendant of LRP. LRP, it sits up there with RedHat and Debian
I was surprised to not see AmogOS in this video too xD
i use Antix linux on a single core 1 ghz netbook , it uses 100 mbs of ram
No flippin way. Linus back at Linux? After 2 years we're finally back
Oh. I must have been permanently banned from /r/linux two years ago at this point then. (I was banned for commenting "drink window cleaner" as the forfeit to the Linux daily driver challenge. Cause you know, "Windows")
@@smorrow bro wat 💀
@@smorrow Bit unprompted to tell people this but uh, yeah that sounds like a reasonable ban bud.
@@BigDogHaver lol what? is the joke really that unobvious?
@@smorrow Yeah.
Fun video, dropping some love for the intro splash every time I see it.
The Vinux distro was actually really interesting. My father has been a completely blind software developer for my entire life (30 years), and he's used various screen readers on different platforms to do his work. JAWS for Windows, I forget for Ubuntu. Vinux might not have been very good out of the box, but there are people out there who are visually impaired who can work just fine with the tools out there. Assuming the application is accessible he's probably even better with PCs than me; I learned almost everything I know about keyboard shortcuts from him.
“That’s basically what you do now” - in reference to Hannah Tech Tips
Isn't the joke that he called Linus a children's entertainer?
@@orlagh277 Yes it is indeed.
Maintaining a Linux distribution was my day job! If you're fine with keeping it close to stock like the Uwuntu, it's a relatively simple venture of changing the preseed configuration and building a disk image. If you're looking for deeper integration, you will need to build some custom packages/scripts/repos, but can still depend on up-streams to provide security updates. If you go this path, I'd recommend giving back by providing mirrors or financial support for the project(s) you depend on. If you really want to get into it, you can use more leading-edge up-streams like Fedora/Debian/Arch as a base and build your own packages, but I wouldn't start there! If you're serious about this and want to setup a FOSS project, I'd love to help!
i am a school student and wants to make my own distrow. how can i learn it?? any free resource on yt with full explanation of how you do it??
I did such a thing, not for a PC, but rather for a oscilloscopes.
@ishantmehndiratta5460 Linux From Scratch isn't necessarily as a distro building resource, but it is a fantastic general linux resource that gives you a lot of the prerequisite knowledge (and a lot more) to build your own distro. You can even extend your LFS image into a pseudo distro of its own with enough work and creative thinking. Every distro followed essentially that process at some point in its development, where it was nothing but a kernel and a build system all the way to where they are now, even if they didn't restart from nothing for every release.
out of curiosity, what do you maintain
Debian is nice for unusual hardware... like the Risc-V cpu I run.
Red Star OS CAN be used, so long as your virtual machine is deliberately configured to NOT have net access I think it was Michael MJD that did a video on the OS awhile back
for linus' distro, I'd love for it to have the feature to randomly drop a software icon upon choosing it to the bottom of the screen which you'll need to pick up and its window's gonna have a crack
Stellarium is a genuine stargazing and astronomic tool
Agreed - Came here to say this also. It’s incredibly useful and completely cross-platform.
I have it on Windows and Android.
@@bgezal It also works nicely in MacOS and iOS (though for iOS there is a fee to unlock all the features. Very much worth it for helping with my astrophotography!).
On Android, I can point my phone at a celestial object I want to identify, and it will correctly orient to show me what's up there.
yeah. i have used it for almost the entirety of the time i have spent on the hobby.
Hannah Montana linux is finally getting the recognition it deserves after pushing the boundaries for years.
For the new LTT distro, please include grub-btrfs. It allows you to boot from filesystem snapshots to rollback any screwups with a reboot. Also snapper and timeshift for corresponding GUIs. And include Cosmic desktop environment.
LLLT - and it's neat little trick would be that it brings you to helpful repair guides for whatever you're trying to do
9:45 you CAN divide things by negative numbers That's step 1 to writing them off your taxes
x/y is "what do you multiply y by to get x", and everybody knows multiplication by a negative.
@@smorrow you got woooshed hard here 😂
Elijah makes the videos so much more unhinged and I love it. The Linus and Elijah duo are just awesome.
cringe and cringerer
@@nicsosa369 exactly
@@computingwithcoffee3907 ADHD except instead of Adderall they just gave him straight Meth.
some things for in a linus-linux distro would be: -touchscreen support for windows tablets that aren't really able to run windows -reliability -stability -good audio customizability
I guess if they do the main aim would be the best possible out of the box gaming experience being who they are :D
seeing Linus google basic ubuntu commands in an effort to not make a mistake feels extremely cathartic for me
7:50 As one of your visually impaired community members, I'll go ahead and jump in and say that because Linux is so manageable you could just use almost any Linux distribution and make it accessible by installing the necessary components. I use Linux on my older laptops that couldn't run Windows to save their life. Also, even though I am somebody in the blind community, I'm also somebody with a computer science background. My college education was in cybersecurity, so my experience is most certainly not reflective of other people in the blind community, let alone just your average person running Windows.
Well... You probably can't use Wayland, since it breaks a lot of accessibility features, but also most benefits of wayland won't be particularly helpful to someone who's visually impaired, anyways... And the security features aren't helpful if they break your accessibility software.
@@psiah9889 an easy solution is to just use the terminal instead of any GUI element. For anything that requires the internet a smartphone can do. For programming or creating a word document, you can get by with the terminal. This is legitimately a solution for some blind people.
@@psiah9889Wayland developers are aware of the accessibility challenges, and given that RedHat is dropping support for X11 and government / corporate contracts usually have stringent accessibility requirements, I guarantee they'll reach parity sooner rather than later.
i switched my windows 10 laptop to linux mint recently and i have been loving it, im hoping to continue my linux path into the future.
Cool, Linux Mint is a good choice to get into Linux.
Linux Mint got me into it and Im still at it. Best OS IMO
@@Cavi587 ya I was afraid of Linux for awhile because I thought I had to do a lot of coding to make it work. Couldn't be further from the truth, a few lines of simple code and done I even got Kodi and wine working through the prompt.
@@spiderron1463 it's so stable and so simple to use I love it.
excellent choice friend Welcome to the Penguin Club!
If you do a LTT linux, make sure all usually required drivers are preinstalled. That it has most apps that you might use preinstalled. Aswell as some packetmanagers that are easy to use.
The LTT Linux OS should have: - Links to lttstore, floatplane and labs of course and some of those could even be stand-alone apps with more functionality. If not, maybe throw a wrapper around them or just leave them as links to be opened in the user's browser of choice. - A link/icon that'd issue a command to install the latest version of Steam in order to avoid the "bad version preinstalled" issue - Support for controllers and other gaming hardware Basically it should be a gaming oriented distro with features similar to SteamOS, but a whole different look.
one of the big benefits you would get to using linux as a visually impaired person is going to be any sort of CLI application. It's straight TTS out, and straight keyboard in. It almost maps 1:1 with the least possible amount of effort required. It'd be a little frustrating im sure, but i cant imagine it would be harder than using a GUI designed for people who can see lol.
You know, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. A CLI _is_ well-suited for anyone with visual impairment.
@@marioprawirosudiro7301 a very significant benefit of it is the fact that basically every CLI app is almost identical in manner of operation. So once you get past that initial curve, it should be pretty trivial.
I just hope there's a quick way to make it stop when you accidentally open a binary file or something
@@TheDarkGangster10 a good old CTRL C or something along those lines will have you covered.
So LTT finally found Linux FX (or WUbuntu) lol The backstory and amount of controversies with this one is insane. I suggest looking up videos about it if you want to see a company make anything it can to be sued
Helll yeah please make your own distro I really will love to see all the process and a video about it
In Linus LInux, "delete" should be renamed to "drop". Alt+Tab should have a screen effect spelling "segue". On startup an ad should appear saying "This startup was brought to you by our sponsor: X". The same on shutdown. Windows should be called "floats" and the taskbar should be called "plane". Clippy as an integral part of the OS, giving you techtips when ever you don't need them (when it pops up your window loses focus).
Haha, it's funny seeing Stellarium here. It's a very commonly used app for astrophotography with computer controlled telescopes. You can use it to click anywhere and then your telescope will move to that location - it's very helpful when doing lunar and planetary imaging. The whole being able to change the location / date thing is helpful as depending on where you're physically located, you can see different things at different times, but what's it's *really* helpful for is being able to see when transit events happen (like ISS lunar / solar transits, moon transits of planets like Jupiter, eclipses etc) and you can get exact times for when they happen, so future planning is possible.
To add, the stellarium mobile app is very nice, though not free, iirc.
6:27 I think I know why it said "Window". You hovered over the Unity dock, which is implemented as a kinda-window with no title. And because the screen reader couldn't figure out what it was except a window it called it "Window".
It's reading the type of element instead of the content in it.
Tbh I think that it's likely due to the distro running an ancient desktop environment. It'd be awesome to see the kind of support you'd get from a more modern system.
WIndow.
@@therealgamiacode My German kicked in there again so I wrote "window" with a capital W (it's a noun and in German all nouns are capitalized). Is that why you wrote "Window."?
It’s still a butt sucking experience that is easily outclassed by other Linux stock accessibility features.
In a LTT distro, I’d love to see either the Nix or Guix package manager. They provide some really useful features like being able to roll back most screw ups.
Alot of funny distros on here, several gave me a good laugh. I would love to see a video of distros to use on Non Windows 11 hardware
You missed Tails and Whonix, those too are very useful to carry around on an USB stick in case you need to use a somewhat untrusted system.
I think you missed the point of the video tails is incredibly useful. These OS’s are not
@@gannonbest7251 System Rescue is pretty useful, I've had that on cd and usb for at least 15 years
@@gannonbest7251 the system rescue cd is something i will genuinely use going forward though.
@@fishbotsid9771 it amazes me people dont know it, been round since XP. If you like the fast, minimal gui - its XFCE, i used to daily drive Xubuntu
Haven't they done a video on Tails?
I love how the very first Linux distro they showed is spyware
Agree. I do not believe in Windows or other proprietary software being compatible with systems related to Linux.
@@novaTopFlex I meant that LinuxFX is known to do shady stuff with their user's data by spying on them, technically LinuxFX is also not FOSS software and other things, so a very bad/controversial distro to start a video.
@@theskyblockman ye, whats worse is the poison this distro is to linux, making ppl believe this is what the community recommends for begginers...
I want to see an "Arch BTW" distro, that gets left in Closed Alpha. So when someone says "I run Arch BTW" we can poke fun and ask how they got in the Alpha 😂😂
Oh wow I'd love to be a part of a LTTinux build. All the memes but it needs more... Maybe a distro for your local Whale Lans? A pile of open source/out of copyright games, portable, and the default configs all match the Whale Lan? throw in the USB at whale lan and you are online playing with everyone else in seconds. You know, and all the memes.
“You can’t divide something by a negative number” - Linus Sebastian
I miss those days where we get Linux Distros on CD / DVD with tech magazines.
Indeed. That was how I got into Linux WAY back in the day. Ordered a CD with Ubuntu on it, and that pretty much got me into Linux. Can't remember exactly when this was, but around 2008.
What magazines ? I guess I was reading the wrong ones. Still I used to like trying different distros. For the longest time I used a bootable CD of Knoppix to help fix people's PCs.
that is still a thing. but i find it kind of useless. They are coasters at best.
@@NealMohansMicroPenis Knoppix was shipped with an issue of Linux Format as far back as 1999. I never actually subscribed to that magazine, but when Amiga Format fell, my yearly subscription had me receiving the Linux mags until cancelled.
here in germany i can still buy a magazine with a cd on it 9 distros to try out they sady sit behind others usually kind of hidden and i have no idea who buys them (exept me a few times) but they are always up to date, neat
CAE Linux was a life saver at university studying engineering. Comes with loads of useful engineering software along with tutorials to get you going
Best part about this channel is you can go about your business for a few weeks and come back and binge watch 10-20 LTT videos.
14:10 "Unsubscribe from Linus" 😂
Omg I hadn't noticed! 🤣
Yeah, though it's still a translation problem
What?
Well at least some people noticed
Good eye! I missed that
Fedora Silverblue (now called Fedora Atomic Desktop) is worth checking out. Nobara is worth checking out if preinstalled Steam and Nvidia drivers are important
Yes, Nobara is a must. Excellent gaming experience, and the maintainer is also the creator of Proton-GE. I'd caution you about nVidia drivers right now, however, as nVidia seems committed to dragging Linux users over the proverbial coals in the name of a graphical DRM feature called 'explicit sync'. You'd be well served by installing it on a rig rocking an AMD GPU.
I would caution folks about jumping in the Nobara train. It's supported by one dev that has many other projects in flight. I personally had a hard time with Nvidia drivers, even with the Nvidia driver install tool, as it didn't blacklist nouveau. It also had a weird glitch where the login screen was just a stark white screen. Personally, I recommend just using Fedora and installing the drivers you need yourself. Rpmfusion makes it pretty easy these days.
Bazzite is another great alternative, very much in the same vein as Nobara, ChimeraOS, HoloISO, SteamOS. It's also based on Fedora Atomic, Universal Blue, with batteries included, and lots of compatibility tools pre-installed and a choice of KDE Plasma or GNOME for your Desktop Environment. Nice community and documentation too
@@BaronCADDude, explicit sync is an important feature. It's not DRM. What are you talking about? Everyone is happy they're finally adding it.
@@MrGamelover23 "DRM" in this context means "Direct Rendering Manager", which is part of the kernel that handles graphics stuff. But it's an important feature indeed. That other guy might not know what explicit sync is/means, or also thought about the other DRM that's bad and thought that explicit sync must also be bad.
I remember messing with red star on a vm in highschool. We were able to change the language to english by importing a language pack we found online and then if you argued with the file manager for a bit you could gain root and do whatever.
The Linu/x distro definitely needs stuff like benchmarking tools. Direct hardware info display programs right on the desktop too. Steam and maybe a few emulators I mean archiving tools and legal backup player programs. Obligatory memes and jokes. A commandline textadventure that leads you on a tour through the office, maybe as an intern on errands during a hectic shoot? Ads for the various LTT stores and websites...
No AmongOS?
i was fully expecting it to be in this video
And no Nyarch! Unacceptable
21:30 Nice to see System Rescue get some love. I keep a flash drive with System Rescue on me at pretty much all times-it is exactly what it says on the tin, plus is really great for drive cloning or preparing a fresh system without needing the command line.
You should totally make a Linus Linux When you make a second video, I'd be interested to see your commentary on Kali Linux and Tails OS
Would have loved to see Tails included, but this video was awesome!!
New Challenge for Linus and Luke: Whoever can use UnAlive Linux the longest without getting his Computer wiped.
3 minute video at max
"come on, you can have swimming lessons with Brodie" killed me. Applause to the writers
hope that Brodie reacts to this
@@mtarek2005 That wasn't a Jaws reference?
@@KumimonoBrodie is a popular linux youtuber, so probably not
I don't know if I want swimming lessons with Brodie... He lives in Australia and I will have to go down there for it. I don't think I would survive the experience
The only problem is we don't have water down under.
Linux does have a lot of tools for accessibility, but I haven't seen a destro specifically designed around it. A really cool software I used for a while was called "Abot" which was a rip on AimBot or AimAssist from games. It made the cursor slide towards icons and buttons. It only worked well with traditional UI menus and stuff, but a great tool as I hurt my wrist. It was later renamed to something else, so I'm not sure what it is called now.
Knoppix was one of the Distros I played around with back in the early 2000s.
18:57 love Elijah just trolling Linus for the infamous "DO AS I SAY"
I would love to see you guys cover NixOS, it has so many cool concepts you don't see in any other OSes.
Stellarium is WAY more than a sun tracker. It's a star map and the software can pilot telescope and camera for observations. it's also a windows app.
I used to have a Linux distro that fit on a floppy disk (1.44 MB) that acted as a gateway between an Ethernet network and a Token Ring network. I slid the little write protection switch on the floppy so it couldn't be written to so in theory couldn't ever be compromised as a reboot would always take it back to the state I wanted...
As part of the Linus dostro should be the segway, where every 15 minutes it opens a random link to an LTT sponsor
Also the "Elijah Linux" package randomly replaces typed words with similar sounding ones. (Warning: do not use alongside suicide Linux, you will die)
"You can't divide something by negative a number!" I guess we know why the Linux challenge failed
Thinking of unsubscribing until Linus gets his GED. Not knowing basic arithmetic is shameful
yes lmaoo
insane idea that im sure nobody else would suggest give tech tips for anything you do, also add each video as an individual app in a huge folder with sub folders categorized by sponsor, make sure to give the user advertisements microsoft style to visit ltt store
You should do a video on accessibility for hearing/sight impaired!
Linus and Elijah's chemistry is hilarious 😂
Man it would be really cool to have Emily and other Linux enthousiast at LTT build an Distro from scratch to show what goes into all the hard work that has to be done.
whos emily?
@@pranavanand9818 She used to be called Anthony Young.
@@Fenrasulfr oh ok
A distro I really like is Porteus. It's designed to run off a usb. It has some driver issues, but it's very cool
I'm not sure about feature set but the LTT Linux distro has got to use the Windows XP with Linus desktop background as the default!
Yes, make a video attempting making a custom Linux distro! Even bring in the Linux queen Emily back for that! It would probably be one of the most difficult guides or things this channel would do but it can also really show one of Linux 's biggest strong points, being fully customizable
@@uhohoverflowshe was in the April Fools video, and had a voice cameo recently as well. Definitely still around, just not hosting for the time being
I, for one, am hugely down with that. I'm from the era of doing stuff with WinPE, but have not actually made a custom Linux distro. Not sure quite why, I think it was that certain ones already existed with everything I might use ( like the featured System Rescue). Having Emily return with a full guide for how to actually make a distro, and talk about the Rufus or Ventoy stuff, would be amazing. She is missed, but having read a lot of comments by *insert words* since she left the videos, I'm not surprised.
It kinda sucks that Emily is choosing not to be on camera for the time being. She was a great host and her and Linus always had a fun dynamic. That being said, I can see why she would choose to step back, KZhead comments sections being what they are.
Anthony.
I was so confused. I just did a search and ..whoa. When did all this happen?!
I want to see NixOS covered. Surprised it wasn't already. Not only is it fascinating, but it has SO MUCH comedic potential!
Went into the comments just to find the first comment pushing for NixOS and CoreOS and upvote them :D
Talkbox and @voice is all I need. Unfortunately I still need my old phone for Kindle.
"... a lot of the default apps will not even give you the option to delete..." so same as MS Windows.
3:12 Brodie Robertson mention???
Sneaky xP
I guess Brodie's reaction video to the Linux Challenge made an impression 😉
5:28 sick burn Elijah lmao 🤣
Finally help us what gaming linux distro to choose. Or just make LTTnix
For an LTT distro, I think something like the System Recovery one except for benchmarking would be good. Maybe even work with Level1Techs to make it useful for server and other enterprise level computers.
2:36 idk if they intended for that back monitor to be used as a way for us to still see what their doing despite going fullscreen camera, but i really like it 😂
Its the Screen Capture pc
2:45 That's gotta be one of the slickest merch plugs ever done, lol.
If you make a Linux distro, include FRR (free range routing), a preconfigured OpenVPN server and more stuff to make it useful as a network appliance